A well-rested Federer beat Mardy Fish 6-7 (5), 7-6 (1), 6-4 on Sunday, winning his second straight Cincinnati Masters championship and fourth overall. He was barely on the court all week because his opponents got hurt and his game was so good.

The Swiss star ended a streak of three straight losses in tournament finals, winning his first Masters event since Cincinnati last year. His 63rd career title tied Bjorn Borg for fifth place in the Open Era. Pete Sampras is fourth at 64, and Jimmy Connors holds the record with 109.

The rain-soaked Rogers Cup has again postponed its singles finals, with Caroline Wozniacki leading Svetlana Kuznetsova in a semifinal match 2-0, 0-15. Victoria Azarenka and Vera Zvonareva never got to play a point.

Rain also suspended play at the Pilot Pen tennis tournament on the campus of Yale University. Play will start today.

Soccer

Stanford freshman Sydney Payne scored her first collegiate goal and Christen Press provided the score that stood up as the eventual winner in No. 2 Stanford’s 2-1 victory over host Boston University.

The No. 9 Santa Clara women survived an early-season test, coming from behind to beat San Jose State 2-1 with two goals in the match’s final eight minutes at Buck Shaw Stadium. The Broncos improved to 15-0-0 against the Spartans.

Danny Allsopp scored twice to give host D.C. United a 2-0 MLS victory over the Philadelphia Union, snapping a five-game losing streak and winning for the first time in eight matches.

Basketball

Kevin Durant blocked shots by Ricky Rubio and Rudy Fernandez in the final seconds, and the Americans held on for an 86-85 victory over Spain in a warm-up game for the world championships. Durant led the United States with 25 points. The Warriors’ Stephen Curry finished with seven points.

Cappie Pondexter scored six of her 31 points in overtime, lifting the New York Liberty to an 88-87 victory over the Connecticut Sun and the No. 2 seed in the WNBA Eastern Conference playoffs. The Liberty will face Indiana in the best-of-three conference semifinals, which begin Wednesday.

The Washington Mystics captured the top seed in the East with a 90-81 victory over the Atlanta Dream and will face the Dream in the conference semifinals.

In the West, top-seeded Seattle will face Los Angeles, and second-seeded Phoenix will play San Antonio.

Miscellany

David Rudisha of Kenya broke the men’s 800-meter world record, clocking 1 minute, 41.09 seconds at the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Rudisha beat the mark of 1:41.11 set by Wilson Kipketer of Denmark on Aug. 24, 1997, in Cologne, Germany. South Africa’s Caster Semenya won the women’s 800 in 1:59.90.